qualitative and visual research of city life, focusing on aspects of cultural diversity in cities, transformation of public and private spaces and changing patterns of consumption cultures.
published in November 2010:
OPEN/CLOSED. Public Spaces in Modern Cities
exhibition catalogue, by Lilia Voronkova and Oleg Pachenkov
The exhibition OPEN/CLOSED (Berlin, 2010) has taken a detailed look at public spaces in the centres of four European cities: Manchester, St. Petersburg, Lviv and Sofia. It is a visual inquiry into what is happening with our city spaces today. The product of an international research project, this exhibition bundles the visual dimension of the project, which included photographic observation as one method and visualisation as one strand of their findings in an innovative approach of complementing the social sciences.
For a donation for p+p this 40-page catalogue can be obtained by e-mail.
published in May 2010:
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN RUSSIAN CITIES
The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era
Berghahn Books May 2010
other publications:
MEGAPOLIS MOSKAU
The Russian Capital Between Multiculturalism and Russification. Artists’ Impressions
Art via Video, Moscow, 2006
[Cordula Gdaniec and Julia Ovchinnikova]
documentary film. latest screening at
urban research directors’ lounge, February 2009 Berlin
an accompanying text has appeared in: Beate Binder, Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow, Karoline Noack (eds): Kunst und Ethnographie. Zum Verhältnis von visueller Kultur und ethnographischem Arbeiten, Berliner Blätter Heft 46/2008, pp. 146-148.
KOMMUNALKA UND PENTHOUSE
Stadt und Stadtgesellschaft im postsowjetischen Moskau
[City and urban society in post-Soviet Moscow]
LIT-Verlag: Münster, 2005
BUILDING SITE MOSCOW
with photographs by Igor Moukhin, urbanXposure 1999
to order a copy of any of the photo books
please contact urbanXposure.
articles:
"Ordinary young hooligans" or Moscow geographies of fear: Spatial practices in and around the Peoples Friendship University of Russia, in: Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev (eds): Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. Cultural dimensions, Moscow: Krasand, 2008, pp.3-15.
Von Ausstellungen, Begegnungen und Partnerschaften: Zur kulturellen Logik der Konstellation "Berlin - Moskau", Volkskunde in Sachsen, 18/2006, pp.73-98 [with Alexa Färber].
"Shopping Malls and Shishas. Urban Space and Material Culture as Approaches to Transformation in Berlin and Moscow". Ethnologia Europaea vol. 34:2 [2004], pp. 113-128 [with Alexa Färber].